American Animals Movie Review

A Quasi-True Story Of An Audacious Art Heist By Ben Pearson June 1 2018 1000 am EDT This review originally ran during our coverage of the Sundance Film Festival.

American animals movie review. A scroll at the end of the film tells us one of the guys has aspirations to work in movies. The title of American Animals has a genetic link to the annual Darwin Awards which chart the ways in which humankind is a devolving species. American Animals Review.

It takes the documentary style from I Tonya but uses the real people involved. The definitive site for reviews trailers showtimes and tickets. American Animals is a true story of four college students who plan on stealing the most valuable book in the United States from their school library.

Evan Peters Barry Keoghan Blake Jenner Jared Abrahamson Udo Kier Ann Dowd. Its good to be smart but not too smart. By the end American Animals finds its truth.

With good performances all around the film builds and builds until youre salivating for that final moment. Made even more engaging by its brilliant format. In american animals these guys didnt visit the library to study.

American Animals is a heist film through and through but differentiates itself from others through the methods by which its tells its story and provides connections between the characters and audience. The film intercuts the portrayal of an infamous heist with interviews from the actual people. As the movie-movie heist becomes a reality Layton strips away the show-offness.

The films points it chooses to make both light and dark are powerful through this very medium. The second would apply to the four guys at the centre of this weird. American Animals review audacious stupidity and teeth-clenching thrills Bart Laytons true-crime heist caper about an incompetent plan to steal valuable books from a college library is a triumph.